This is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith. That is, a lively faith, working by charity, makes a man victorious over the greatest temptations, and over all the adversaries of his salvation. (Witham) --- Our faith; Not a bare speculative or dead faith, but a faith working by charity. (Galatians v. 6.) (Challoner)
Verse 1 John 5:4. _WHATSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD_] Παν το γεγεννημενον· _Whatsoever_ (the neuter for the masculine) _is begotten of God:_ _overcometh the world_. "I understand by this," says _Schoettgen_...
FOR WHATSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD OVERCOMETH THE WORLD - The world, in its maxims, and precepts, and customs, does not rule him, but he is a freeman. The idea is, that there is a conflict between religion...
V. HEREBY WE KNOW Chapter S 3:19-5:13 _ 1. Hereby we know that we are of the truth (1 John 3:19)_ 2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God (1 John 4:1) 3. Hereby know we the Spirit of truth and of error...
The marks of true children of God are a correct view of Christ's person, love to God and one another, obedience to God's commandment, and faith, this being the victorious principle by which the world...
a For this is the love of God, that we should keep his commandments; and his commandments are not heavy, because everything that is born of God conquers the world. John reverts to an idea which is ne...
LOVE WITHIN THE DIVINE FAMILY (1 John 5:1-2)...
FOR. Because. WORLD. App-129. FAITH. App-150....
Faith is the Source of Love, the Victory over the World and the Possession of Life 1. _Whosoever believeth_ Or, _Every one that believeth_: the construction is identical with that in 1Jn 2:29, 1 John...
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. God is Love There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of summary (1 John 5:13-21). T...
Reason why keeping even the difficult commandment of loving others rather than oneself is not a grievous burden. It is the world and its ways which makes the Divine commands grievous, and the new birt...
4. Reason why keeping even the difficult commandment of loving others rather than oneself is not a grievous burden. It is the world and its ways which makes the Divine commands grievous, and the new b...
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. GOD IS LOVE There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of summary (1 John 5:13-21). Th...
ΓΕΓΕΝΝΗΜΈΝΟΝ _perf. pass. part. n. пот. sing. от_ ΓΕΝΝΆΩ (G1080) рождаться, ΠΆΝ ΤΌ ΓΕΓΕΝΝΗΜΈΝΟΝ έκ ΤΟΎ ΘΕΟΎ каждый, кто родился от Бога. Фраза в _n._, вероятно, используется в обобщающем значении, ил...
DISCOURSE: 2463 OVERCOMING THE WORLD 1 John 5:4. _Whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the wor...
FOR WHATSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD, &C.— That is, every child of God. The connection of this with the preceding verse stands thus: _"His commandments are not grievous;_ because in observing them we gain a...
CHAPTER XV _FAITHTHE POWER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_ 1 John 5:4-12 A. _The Text_ For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our fait...
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. FOR - (note, 1 John 5:3.) Reason why "His commandments are not grievous." Thou...
VERSE 4. FOR WHATSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD OVERCOMETH THE WORLD. The Syriac has: "Because whoever is born of God," in the place of "For whatsoever is born of God." The allusion is to persons, so no mistak...
3 The spirit of antichrist is the spirit of the world. It does not want the Christ of the Scriptures, but prefers some substitute more suited to its taste. This spirit has come to pervade, not only th...
5:4 begotten (b-6) Or 'is born.' as ch. 3.9....
WHATSOEVER] not 'whosoever.' 'It is not the man, but his birth from God, which conquers' (Plummer)....
THE LOVE, OBEDIENCE, AND ASSURANCE OF BELIEVERS 1. The reason for brotherly love. 2. This is the converse of 1 John 4:19. Love to God and love to the brethren being inseparable, each is the test of...
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 5 *FAITH OVERCOMES THE *WORLD (1 JOHN 5:1-5) V1 Jesus is the *Christ. Everyone who believes this has been born of God. Everyone who loves the fa...
V. (8.) FAITH THE TEST OF LOVE (1 John 5:1). (_a_) _Its power_ (1 John 5:1). (_b_) _The evidence on which it rests_ (1 John 5:6). (_c_) _What it contains_ ...
CHAPTER 15 BIRTH AND VICTORY 1 John 5:3 ST. JOHN here connects the Christian Birth with Victory. He tells us that of the supernatural life the destined and (so to speak) natural end is Conquest. No...
The reason why “His commandments are not heavy”. Punctuate οὐκ εἰσίν, ὅτι πᾶν, κ. τ. λ. The neut. (πᾶν τὸ γεγ.) expresses the universality of the principle, “drückt die unbedingte Allgemeinheit noch s...
What makes the Commandments of God easy. “Every one that hath faith that Jesus is the Christ hath been begotten of God; and every one that loveth Him that begat loveth him that hath been begotten of H...
THE VICTORIOUS LIFE 1 John 5:1 The “begotten” children of God are constantly referred to in this Epistle. The word indicates the communication, in regeneration, of the divine nature, of which the fi...
The final subject is our fellowship with God in life. This is fundamental, and is shown to be so. The relationship between the life of God and the love of God is self-evident, and that is equally true...
KEEPING ON KEEPING GOD'S COMMANDMENTS If anyone really loves God, he will keep on keeping His commandments (1 John 5:3; John 14:15; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8). John explained that those commandments are n...
(5) For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: (6) and this is the victory that (e) overcometh the world, [even] our (f) faith. (5) A reason: Because by regeneration we have received strengt...
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. (5) Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the...
_THE EASY YOKE_ ‘His commandments are not grievous.’ 1 John 5:3 Here we see the restfulness of the Christian life. There is no real burden in Christ’s commandments, for, as He said, His yoke is eas...
_SONSHIP AND VICTORY_ ‘For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.’ 1 John 5:4 Our first inquiry will naturally be, What i...
4_This is the victory _As he had said that all who are born of God overcome the world, he also sets forth the way of overcoming it. For it might be still asked, whence comes this victory? He then make...
But a danger exists on the other side. It may be, that we love the brethren because they are pleasant to us; they furnish us with agreeable society, in which our conscience is not wounded. A counter-p...
FOR WHATSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD,.... Which may be understood either of persons born; of God; or of the new creature, or principle of grace wrought in them, particularly faith hereafter mentioned, which...
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, _even_ our faith. Ver. 4. _Even our faith_] Which shows a man a better project, puts his head in...
_Whosoever_, &c. The apostle having discoursed in the preceding Chapter s, on the privileges of the children of God, now adds a further illustration of the great essential parts of their character, in...
FOR WHATSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD OVERCOMETH THE WORLD; a proof of the assertion just made, that God's commands are not grievous. Nothing is opposed to the fulfilment of them but the love of the world; an...
THE POWER, TESTIMONY, AND SUBSTANCE OF FAITH. The wonderful power of faith:...
FOR WHATSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD OVERCOMES THE WORLD; AND THIS IS THE VICTORY THAT OVERCOMES THE WORLD, EVEN OUR FAITH....
“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and everyone that loveth Him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of Him.” The faith that Jesus is the Christ is here seen to corre...
1-5 True love for the people of God, may be distinguished from natural kindness or party attachments, by its being united with the love of God, and obedience to his commands. The same Holy Spirit tha...
He explains himself, viz. that to one who is born of God his commandments are not grievous, because such a one, in that divine birth, hath received a life and nature that makes him far superior to thi...
1 John 5:4 For G3754 whatever G3956 born G1080 (G5772) of G1537 God G2316 overcomes G3528 (G5719) world...
THE TRUE CHRISTIAN OVERCOMES BY HIS FAITH IN JESUS THE SON OF GOD (1 JOHN 5:4). ‘For whatever is begotten of God overcomes the world. And this is the conquering power that has overcome the world, eve...
The ruling idea of the third part is Faith in the Spirit's testimony concerning the Son of God incarnate. The close of chap. 3 introduces the theme by the first explicit mention of faith and the Spiri...
1 John 5:4-5. FOR WHOSOEVER IS BEGOTTEN OF GOD a new form of words, the ‘we' of the previous verse with ‘that which is born of the Spirit' (John 3:6) OVERCOMETH THE WORLD: is victorious over the kingd...
FOR (οτ). The reason why God's commandments are not heavy is the power that comes with the new birth from God.WHATSOEVER IS BEGOTTEN OF GOD (παν το γεγεννημενον εκ του θεου). Neuter singular perfe...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "world-system". (Revelation 11:15); (John 7:7). (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8). _...
1 John 5:4 Office and Province of Faith. I. Faith is not primarily a light of the soul. Though its gaze ought ever to be fixed on the source of all light, it looks to that source rather in the first...
1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God._ Take comfort, believer, from that declaration. You have accepted Jesus as the Christ the anointed of God, so the apostle aff...
1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God:_ These are very simple words, but they contain a great depth of meaning. The teaching conveyed by this Epistle is very profou...
CONTENTS: Faith the overcoming principle. The advantages of faith in salvation, prayer, preservation from sin. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Satan, John. CONCLUSION: He who has been born agai...
1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God._ The faith which embraces him as the Lord of glory, has a regenerating influence on the heart. The immediate fruit is love to...
BECAUSE. Old and young, Jew and Gentile, men and women, slave and free, - all who are NEW in Christ are able to defeat the world and resist its temptations to break God's _law!!!_ See John 3:3; John 3...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:4 OVERCOMES THE WORLD. See John 16:33. Genuine Christians do not let the world turn them away from following Christ....
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:1 Faith in the Son as the Way to Life. So far, John has written much about love and obedience, but not so much about faith. He now shifts to the importance of believing in the...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 5:4. OVERCOMETH THE WORLD.—The world is regarded as the sphere of the self-seeking principle. He who is born of God is born into another sphere—the sphere of the...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 5:1 Faith is the source of love. 1 JOHN 5:1 The verse is a sorites. To believe in the Incarnation involves birth from God. To be born of God involves loving God. To love God invol...
Chuck Smith Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him (1 John 5:1). So I say, "I love Jesus. He is...
1 Corinthians 15:57; 1 John 2:13; 1 John 3:9; 1 John 4:4; 1 John 5:1;...
Overcometh [ν ι κ α]. See on 2 13. The victory [η ν ι κ η]. Only here in the New Testament. That overcometh [η ν ι κ η σ α σ α]. The aorist tense, overcame. On the cumulative form of expression, the...
SALVATION MADE SURE 1 John 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Taking stock is a very important thing with the business man. Laying a good foundation is a very important task with the builder, Feeling the. pulse...
For whatsoever — This expression implies the most unlimited universality. Is born of God overcometh the world — Conquers whatever it can lay in the way, either to allure or fright the children of God...
Two things are here observable, namely,. proposition, and the explication of that proposition. Observe, 1. The proposition, WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD, OVERCOMETH THE WORLD. Every regenerate Christian...